About Elizabeth Kean MBACP

I’m an integrative counsellor with a background in psychology and education, offering a warm, consistent space where you can feel truly heard in both your words and what your body may be holding. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, low, stuck, or navigating change, we’ll explore your experience together at a pace that feels safe.

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Counselling can offer a steady, supportive relationship where you can deepen your self-understanding and find your own way through life’s challenges. My relational approach draws on transactional analysis, attachment theory, and psychodynamic thinking, with a focus on how early experiences shape how we feel and relate today. I work with a wide range of issues, including depression, anxiety, self-harm, low self-esteem, life transitions, grief, trauma, OCD, family and relationship difficulties, and domestic abuse.

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I hold a CACPB-accredited qualification in somatic trauma work, which guides how I support clients in noticing and gently working with bodily sensations, tension, and nervous system responses, helping to process trauma safely and in an embodied way. I am also neurodiversity-affirming and an LGBTQIA+ ally, welcoming people of all identities and neurotypes. Before training as a counsellor, I studied psychology and completed a BA (Hons) in Education, working for over 15 years in both mainstream and specialist educational settings.

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My professional counselling training of over 5 years (CPCAB/BACP accredited) is supported by further study in trauma, self-harm, suicide, and dissociative disorders. I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and adhere to their ethical code of practice. I am also an associate at The Crescent Practice, a service established for over 20 years offering counselling, psychotherapy, and coaching in Brighton and Horsham: thecrescentpractice.co.uk.